Photo by Melanie Leonard, WYNONO
biography
Summer J. Hart is an interdisciplinary artist and writer from Maine living in the Hudson Valley, New York. She is the author of two books of poetry: Boomhouse (2023, The 3rd Thing Press), which won the 2024 Eugene Paul Nassar Poetry Prize, and What Came Down in the Smoke (forthcoming in 2026 from JackLeg Press). Her creative work has been supported by Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, MacDowell, NYSCA/NYFA, and Vermont Studio Center.
Her writing can be found or is forthcoming in Best Small Fictions 2023 (Alternating Current Press), Allium, Ballast, Bedfellows, Heavy Feather Review, Jet Fuel Review, The Massachusetts Review, North American Review, Northern New England Review, Tyger Quarterly, Waxwing, Wild Roof Journal, and elsewhere. Her mixed-media artworks have been featured in exhibitions across the United States. They are included in the permanent collections of The University of Hartford and The University of Southern Maine.
Summer is an enrolled member of the Listuguj Mi’gmaq First Nation.
e: summerjhart@gmail.com
sm: @summerjhart
listuguj mi’gmaq first nation
munsee lenape land
My studio was built on the traditional and stolen land of the Munsee Lenape—the Wolf Clan, one of three main groups within the Lenape Nation.
munsee lenape online resources
Compiled by Hudson River Valley Institute
Munsee Lenape Digital Resources on Native Land: https://native-land.ca/maps/territories/munsee-lenape/
Delaware Nation: https://www.delawarenation-nsn.gov/about-us/
Multilingualism and Education in Wisconsin https://www.teachlangwisconsin.com/mohegan/munsee/lenape
Ramapo Munsee Lenape Nation: https://ramapomunsee.net/
“Remembering Pavonia” - Dutch soldiers attack Native Americans across the Hudson River. https://www.publichistoryproject.org/remembering-pavonia/.
Stockbridge-Munsee Community Band of Mohican Indians https://www.mohican.com/
The Written Record of the Voyage of 1524 of Giovanni da Verrazano as recorded in a letter to Francis I, King of France, July 8th, 1524 http://www.columbia.edu/~lmg21/ash3002y/earlyac99/documents/verrazan.htm
artist statement
My work is about obsessiveness and obsession, memory, being, and longing.